Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coach Hal Lahar isn't taking too pessimistic an attitude. His starting line despite substitutions, will average 203 pounds per man, an 11-pound advantage over the Crimson. It will include Don Tomanek a junior, who is playing his third year of varsity football, and Dick Ross, a veteran of last year's first team offensive eleven...
Captain dick Clasby, fifth leading ground gainer in the country last year, has looked exceptionally good in practice, while 215 pound fullback John Culver should give the center protion of the Ohio line a rather bard day's bruising...
...confined by armed force or ultimatum. Even if the Navarre Plan goes ahead on oiled bearings, the Viet Minh probably can never be wiped out to the last unit. But with an aggressive plan aggressively carried out, the defenders can hope to show the Communists they cannot win, to pound and slash them until they finally will simply stop fighting-as the Greek Communist guerrillas did in the Greek civil...
...engines are needed. Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott explained that the flying time of a jet, without an overhaul, was originally estimated at 100 hours. But the new engines run for more than 250 hours. Said Defense Secretary Charles Wilson: "This is just like ordering a big beefsteak, a pound, and finding you only want a half-pound . . . Not knowing how hungry we might be for these spare engines, we ordered more than we could...
...hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged in his leg. On the first day, the captain took stock of their supplies: a case of bully beef (48 twelve-ounce cans), two seven-pound cans of fried spiced rice, 48 cans of condensed milk, about six quarts of fresh water...